2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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title: "irc & ircs links"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, IRC]
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2018-11-25 23:51:24 +01:00
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redirect_from: /english/2015/05/18/ircs_links.html
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2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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2023-02-22 19:28:38 +01:00
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_Yet another note-to-self post, but these links are confusing, how do you
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make proper irc:// or ircs:// link?_
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2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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I started wondering about the proper way to make irc/ircs links today and
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based on the following addresses
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2023-02-22 19:28:38 +01:00
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- https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs
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- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
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2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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2015-10-10 07:30:50 +02:00
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EDIT 2015-08-30 & 2015-10-10: I got eaten by HTML5 validator, because of
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what was said above :frown: and the proper way how you make links without
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getting eaten by HTML5 validator is
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(https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04) and the address
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would become
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2015-08-30 15:23:58 +02:00
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`ircs://irc.example.org:6697/%23channel%2C%23%23channel%2C%21channel`.
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See [Percent-encoding at Wikipedia]. Thanks Mardeg at irc.mozilla.org.
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2023-02-22 19:28:38 +01:00
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[percent-encoding at wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_characters
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2015-08-30 15:23:58 +02:00
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2023-02-22 19:28:38 +01:00
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- specifies that the link uses SSL with the _s_ (for plain text just remove
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2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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it)
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2023-02-22 19:28:38 +01:00
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- specifies the port so client doesn't have to guess it
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- clearly specifies the channels without leaving prefixes for the client
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2015-05-18 11:22:52 +02:00
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to guess
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The previously linked pages also contain other forms, but this seems the
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best to me and I am against using channel keys as there are better ways
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to keep channel private (such as restricted or +i and +I to authorized
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people) and server passwords aren't used anywhere where I would encounter
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them, other than forwarding the password to NickServ, but that is depracted
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2019-01-20 16:42:51 +01:00
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by [SASL](https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.1.html).
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